Edges and nodes for days — Ever bumped into the Google admin-managed Groups parent limits? They can be an issue for B2B multi-tenant application authorization, particularly if you are serving Google Cloud Storage objects in a differentiated way. Use this utility to proactively check whether you’re getting close to these limits, and to understand hotspots. It…

Hacky workarounds 103 — As you may have noticed, the Apps Script paragraph.getAttributes() function returns mostly nulls. This is because paragraph styles are inherited from the named styles unless they’re explicitly set on the paragraph (as demonstrated in this Advanced Docs sample), over-riding the default styles. Unfortunately, the Apps Script Document Service doesn’t provide an API to get the named styles.

Productivity tools — As you may know, G Suite provides the ability to create shared group calendars, which are great for 1:many sharing. Many teams would like to have visibility not only into a shared administrative calendar, but also their team-mates’ calendars; while you can do this by adding your team members in…

Hacky workarounds 102 — As you may have noticed, the heading id isn’t one of the attributes, and there isn’t a method to retrieve it in the basic Document Service; however, there are a couple of workarounds. Heading Id Argument from Table of Contents You can get the heading argument from the Table of Contents (TOC), and that may be the…

Hacky workarounds 101 — As you may have noticed, Apps Script is moving increasingly to a Stackdriver logging model. However, as far as I can tell, the Stackdriver javascript profiler has hard node.js dependencies; corrections in the comments below, would love to be wrong about this. Yet some scripts take a long time, particularly…

Bringing the cloud down to earth — Hybrid is a bit of an overloaded term; in this article, hybrid management refers to managing applications and infrastructure located on-premise (where on-premise may included a managed service provider) and in the cloud in the same way and using the same tools; it does not refer to extending on-premise network…

Scaling securely — One of the advantages of moving to Google Cloud Platform is that security is woven into the fabric of the cloud. …

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my — Google Cloud Platform brings a vast array of security monitoring facilities to its various platforms, and provides tools including Stackdriver and Cloud Security Command Center to monitor them. In addition, there’s a rich partner ecosystem, and many customers have already implemented security monitoring policy in their Splunk implementation. This solutions…

Remember all the things with Apps Script — Gmail released a nudge feature last year which automagically reminds you of emails you have sent or received which haven’t been responded to. This is a great start, but for the control-freaks amongst us it’s a bit random which emails get nudged and when. The following Apps Script gives you…